It was uninformed :) but I definitely think that the infrastructure is
the message.
I don't doubt that a whole universe of ideas and battles can exist on
the top of any given 'infrastructure'.
The hard question (or even hard problem) is what matters? Where is the
line drawn between the abstr
On 13/03/18 23:26, Morlock Elloi wrote:
>> What do you mean by "confronting on an infrastructure level" and
>> "liberating the infrastructure"? Sure, one thing is to understand the
>
> 1. Requiring equal access to switches and fiber. Like cities (most so
> far) cannot have private streets, and l
I imagine that Morlock’s original pithy statement of comparing activism to
"grafitti on tanks”
was an informed re-mix of the old Mcluhan aphorism:
"the content or message of any particular medium has about as much importance
as the stencilling on the casing of an atomic bomb”
The origin might
> What do you mean by "confronting on an infrastructure level" and
> "liberating the infrastructure"? Sure, one thing is to understand the
1. Requiring equal access to switches and fiber. Like cities (most so
far) cannot have private streets, and like Ma Bell was forced to provide
phone service
On 2018-03-12 18:27, Morlock Elloi wrote:
> The old-fashioned way, by confronting at the infrastructure level, away
> from keyboards. Messaging through the adversarial infrastructure is like
> drawing graffiti on the enemy tanks - cute but doesn't do s*it.
>
> This is not something that will be
I mostly agree, apart from the antiquity of speech.
The more we go, the older it gets.
See for instance :
https://cosmosmagazine.com/palaeontology/bones-of-stone-
age-boy-challenge-single-origin-theory-of-modern-humans
"Bones of Stone Age boy challenge single-origin theory of modern humans.
DNA
I mostly agree, apart from antiquity of speech.
The more we go, the older it gets.
See for instance :
https://cosmosmagazine.com/palaeontology/bones-of-stone-age-boy-challenge-single-origin-theory-of-modern-humans
"Bones of Stone Age boy challenge single-origin theory of modern humans.
DNA analys
These distinctions (humans, animals, machines) are artificial and not
helpful (also a slippery slope - the end game in that direction is
racism/identity politics.)
Speech is most likely a mutation only 50,000 years old (we didn't get
quite used to it yet.) The difference between the speech tec
On 12/03/18 22:50, Morlock Elloi wrote:
> Using acoustic waves through the air as the carrier is definitely
> confronting at the infrastructure level :)
>
>> And then something really radical: talk to your neighbour, come out of
Oh, so you give into the idea of human resources? :)
Well, I beg
Using acoustic waves through the air as the carrier is definitely
confronting at the infrastructure level :)
And then something really radical: talk to your neighbour, come out of
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On 12/03/18 17:27, Morlock Elloi wrote:
> The old-fashioned way, by confronting at the infrastructure level, away
> from keyboards. Messaging through the adversarial infrastructure is like
> drawing graffiti on the enemy tanks - cute but doesn't do s*it.
Confrontation is good for the system, cri
The old-fashioned way, by confronting at the infrastructure level, away
from keyboards. Messaging through the adversarial infrastructure is like
drawing graffiti on the enemy tanks - cute but doesn't do s*it.
This is not something that will be achieved overnight. What is missing
is the awarene
More history. The article below explores history of the successful
propping up of a tool to level of science.
I think that this is a major 'elephant in the room' phenomenon that has
permeated everything. Including nettime, of course - I'm referring to
philosophical discourses on primitive and
>
>
>
> The idea of countering these infrastructures by ad-hock activism,
> hacking and similar is laughable. I'm starting to think that the whole
> concept of 'hacking' is injected subversion.
How to oppose a system where opposition is taken in account?
> What system isnt designed that way?
There is a fantastic piece of history of the dystopia we live in at
https://archive.org/details/6240_System_Technology_01_29_28_19
It's a promo film by System Development Corporation, predicting pretty
much everything, up to and including simulating societies and taking
corrective measures.
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